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Kathleen Maura Rice is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 4th congressional district since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and women's rights during her time in office. Rice previously served as the District Attorney of Nassau County, where she was known for her efforts to combat domestic violence and improve public safety. She has also been involved in various initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of life for her constituents in New York.
ICE has publicly stated that it is expanding voluntarily COVID-19 testing across detention facilities and recently completed testing all individuals detained at family detention centers, resulting in 55 positive cases at the Karnes Family…
We know that ICE detainees are still being transferred between detention facilities around the country, which is inevitably contributing to the spread of this virus.
I urge each one of ICE's detention contractors to be more aggressive in their response to COVID-19.
The bottom line is that much more needs to be done to stop the spread of the coronavirus at these facilities.
The clearest way to prevent the spread of this disease in facilities is to pursue alternatives to detention and release those detainees who pose no threat to communities.
Detention facilities must be held to a high standard at all times, but in this moment, it is of vital importance.
COVID-19 does not distinguish between U.S. citizens and noncitizens and neither should we in our approach to protect against it.
That is a large amount of taxpayer money, which is funding a historically high number of detention beds, and it demands oversight and accountability.
Last month intelligence officials warned Members of Congress that Russia is again interfering in the 2020 Presidential election. Do you condemn these attacks from the Russian Government to interfere in American elections?
I now ask each witness to summarize his statement for 5 minutes, beginning with Mr. Anzaldua.
I am eager to hear from today's witnesses who have first-hand experience with the consequences border communities face due to the hasty construction of a border wall.
The reckless waiving of crucial Federal laws puts the people who live along our Southern Border at unnecessary risk and does not enhance our border security.
No Secretary, no matter the purpose or intent, should have the ability to waive every law in their entirety with the stroke of a pen.
We do know and have seen that it will irreparably harm real people and the land they live on.
The construction of a border wall will not stop the influx of drugs into our country, will be an unnecessary cost to taxpayers, and as we will discuss today, will have an irreversible impact on the rights of U.S. citizens and Native…
The American public will not be fooled by this President's authoritarian actions and word games intended to hide the bad behavior of his administration.
It seems to me that this is, once again, an attempt by this administration, specifically Donald Trump, who formerly was a New Yorker, to punish New York.
We are well within our Constitutional obligation of having a role in oversight.
There are people in positions above you who don't show up, who don't answer the call, which is their duty.
These policies and management decisions by the administration have contributed to mass overcrowding and wide-spread inhumane conditions.
These children were migrants from Central America, who died of preventable conditions that went untreated.
We must never forget Jakelin, Felipe, Darlyn, Juan, Wilmer, and Carlos, and we must never let this happen to another child again.
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